Arena has X-Factor! City show for TV stars.Byline: By JADE jade, common name for either of two minerals used as gems. The rarer variety of jade is jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate, NaAl(SiO3)2, usually white or green in color; the green variety is the more valuable. WRIGHT STARS from the smash-hit TV talent show X-Factor are coming to the ECHO Arena. The X-Factor Live tour will be at the waterfront venue on March 4 next year, once the winner of the ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). 1 show and a pounds 1m recording contract has been chosen. Organisers promise the tour will be full of special guests and include performances from the show's more memorable characters. The 18-date arena tour will visit the UK'smajor cities, with contestants performing classic songs and viewers' favourites from the TV series. Last year, Liverpool audiences saw 2007 winner Leon Jackson take centre stage two months after storming straight to the top of the charts with his debut single When You Believe. Runners-up Rhydian Roberts and Same Difference also headlined the tour. This year's final contestants - three boys, three girls, three over-25s and three groups - will perform live on ITV1 tonight for the first time in front of a TV audience of almost 10m. The singers have spoken about their excitement at performing live on the fifth series of the show, which has number one hits as its theme this week. But Girlband singer Marisa Billitteri, 19, of Bristol, broke down in tears as she described how she was bullied bul·ly 1 n. pl. bul·lies 1. A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people. 2. A hired ruffian; a thug. 3. A pimp. 4. as a youngster over her singing aspirations. She said: "It really did knock me back. I thought: 'I'm going to go for it.' "I became stronger as a person when I met the girls." Fellow Girlband member Tita Lau, 19, said the rules in the house shared by the show's contestants mean they have to obey a 9pm curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. . She said: "We are the goody two-shoes goody two-shoes n. pl. goody two-shoes Informal A goody-goody. [After the title character in The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, a nursery tale perhaps by Oliver Goldsmith.] of everybody in the house. We are in bed early." Tickets for the X Factor Tour go on sale on Monday, costing pounds 28.50. There are a limited number of pounds 90 family tickets (four tickets, maximum two adults). Call the ticket hotline on 0870 735 5000 or go to www.bookingsdirect.com. Agency and credit card bookings are subject to booking fee. jadewright@liverpoolecho.co.uk CAPTION(S): ON STAGE: Girl band, one of the X-Factor contestants hoping to perform at the ECHO Arena |
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